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Prof. Lavanya Suresh

Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Decentralization, Political ecology, Public Administration
Cabin no. K108
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Publications

Book Published
Nadkarni, M. V., Sivanna, N., & Suresh, Lavanya., (2018). Decentralised Democracy: Gandhi’s Vision and Indian Reality. New York: Routledge. (SCOPUS Indexed). Link.

Monograph
Suresh, L., & Suchitra, M. (2021). Suicidal resistance: Understanding the opposition against the Western Ghats conservation in Karunapuram, Idukki, Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies. Link (ISBN 978-81-948195-5-4/ Creative Commons)

Research Articles

Khare, Kopal., & Suresh, Lavanya. (2024). Women and Invisible Boundaries: A Case of Slippage in Sanitation in Two Gram Panchayats, Shravasti, UP, India. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2024.2333895. (SCOPUS Indexed)

Bhushan, R., Hooda, S., Vidhani, H., Gupta, M., Suresh, L., & Clune, T. (2024). Supervised Model for Peri-Urban Area Demarcation in Hyderabad, India. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 21. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2024.3359632. (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya. (2023). The politics of conflict and conservation in the state of Kerala, India. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-023-00844-7 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Prasad, Mousami.,& Suresh, Lavanya. (2023). Another side of industrial growth in India: Environmental damage from industrial accidents. Safety Science,164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106152 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Khare, Kopal., & Suresh, Lavanya. (2023). Justice and sanitation governance: an enquiry into the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Rural programme in UP, India. Water Policyhttps://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2023.187 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Sankar, Vinay and Suresh, Lavanya., (2023). The Political Ecology of Small Freshwater Bodies in Kerala, India. World Water Policy, 9(1): 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.12092 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Khare, Kopal and Suresh, Lavanya., (2021). Justice and sanitation well-being: an analysis of frameworks in the context of slippage, based on findings from Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Water and Health, 19 (5): 823–835. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2021.094 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2021). Understanding the Relationship between Sustainability and Ecofeminism in an Indian Context. Journal of Developing Societies, 37(1), 116-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X211001648 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2017). Decentralised and Effective Forest Resource Governance in India. South Asia Research, 37(1), 78-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728016675531 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2015). Situating social science in the philosophical debate on research methodology with a focus on Public Administration. Indian Journal Of Public Administration, LXI(1), 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120150112 (UGC Care Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Forest Resource Management (FRM): A Study of the Effectiveness of Decentralised FRM Institutions. Man & Development, XXXVI (3), 1-22 (UGC Care Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). Governing the Resource: A Study of the Institutions of Decentralized Forest Resource Management. Studies in Indian Politics, 2(1), 21-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2321023014526024 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2013). A Fixed Tenure System: Long Journey of Bureaucratic Reforms. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol.48 (48): 16-18 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Chapters in books
Suresh. L (2019). The Broad-Basing process in India and women in M.V. Nadkarni( ed.) Socio- Economic Change and the Broad-Basing Process in India (pp. 93-106). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429316418

Suresh, Lavanya., (2016). Understanding Nestedness in Democratic Decentralisation through the Lens of Forest Resource Governance in Tamil Nadu . In by E. Venkatesu (Ed.), Democratic Decentralization in India Experiences, Issues and Challenges (pp. 174-187). New York: Routledge.

Review Articles
Suresh, Lavanya. (2020). ‘Building Inclusive Frameworks: Review of Sharachchandra Lele, et al eds. 2018. Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity, Cambridge: MIT Press’. Ecology, Economy and Society3(2), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i2.215 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya. (2017). Book Review of ‘The great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh’. Environmental Politics, 26(6),1158-1160. (Taylor & Francis) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1365808 (SCOPUS Indexed)

Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). Books at a Glance. (Review of the book Environment and Tribes in India: Resource Conflicts and Adaptations. Vineetha Menon (ed)). Journal of Social and Economic Development,16(1), 386-387

Textbook
Edited a module titled ‘Urban Commons, Ecologies and Environmentalism’ in the textbook for the paper titled ‘Sociology of Urban Transformations’ (2016 version) published by E-Pathshala Textbooks (MHRD, Government of India) for the subject of Sociology. 

Conference Proceedings

Bhushan, N. K. V, M. Gupta, L. Suresh and T. Clune, (2024). An ANN based model to analyze metropolitan growth around Melbourne, Australia. IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 4710-4713, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642083

Suresh, Lavanya. (2018). Perspectives on Gender Equality in the Context of Environment Sustainability. Sustainability, Institutions, Incentives: Voices, Policies and Commitments (pp. 317-326). New Delhi: Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE).

Suresh, Lavanya. (2018). Bovine Nationalism: The Story of Patronage and Populism in the State of Tamil Nadu, India. ERPI 2018 International Conference Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World, Vol , I , B 1-E 7